Out Now: Science Fiction Studies 38.1 (March 2011)

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Science Fiction Studies

#113 = Volume 38, Part 1 = March 2011 ARTICLES     SPECIAL ISSUE ON SLIPSTREAM Edited by Rob Latham Introduction and Critical Bibliography    Bruce Sterling. Slipstream 2 Symposium on Slipstream     Paweł Frelik. Of Slipstream and Others: SF and Genre Boundary Discourses Justin St. Clair. Borrowed Time: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and the Victorian Fourth Dimension Brooks Landon. Slipstream Then, Slipstream Now: The Curious Connections between William Douglas O’Connor’s “The Brazen Android” and Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days        T.S. Miller. Preternatural Narration and the Lens of Genre Fiction in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao         N. Katherine Hayles. Material Entanglements: Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts as Slipstream Novel      Sarah Dillon. “It’s a Question of Words, Therefore”: Becoming-Animal in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin    Andrew Wenaus. Fractal Narrative, Paraspace, and Strange Loops: The Paradox of Escape in Jeff Noon’s Vurt        REVIEW-ESSAYS Jeff Hicks and Mark Young. Slipstreams, Paraspheres, Interstices: Fictions of the New Millennium: Kelly/Kessel’s The Secret History of Science Fiction, Morrison/Keegan’s Paraspheres, Morrow’s Impossible Realism, Sherman/Goss/Barzak’s Anthology of Interstitial Writing (2 vols.), Team Bizarro’s Introduction to the Bizarro Genre (2 vols.), and Ann/Jeff Vandermeer’s The New Weird      Joshua Raulerson. Nanoculture and the Future of SF: Milburn’s Nanovision: Engineering the Future           BOOKS IN REVIEW Baxter’s J.G. Ballard (Doug Davis) Broderick’s Unleashing the Strange: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Literature (Adam Guzkowski)           Greven’s Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek (Jennifer Gunnels)  Magnanini’s Fairy-Tale Science (Jane Donawerth)            Perlich/Whitt’s Millennial Mythmaking (Adam Frisch)      Russell’s Trans/Forming Utopia (2 vols.) (Richard Hunt) NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Further Readings in the Slipstream  SF Cold War Exhibit (Morgan Hubbard)     \ Gernsback Exhibit in Luxembourg (Gérard Kraus)            PKD Redux (Carol McGuirk)           New Directions of the European Fantastic Notes on Contributors